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runner
has definitions from the fields of zoology,baseball,sport,games,law,criminal law,botany
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) someone who imports or exports without paying duties
Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)One of the beer runners telephoned O_'_Banion - on a line tapped by the detective bureau - and reported the situation . But in_the_meantime the beer runner , unhappy with this solution , telephoned Torrio and returned to O_'_Banion with the message : `` Say , Dionie , I just been talking to Johnny , and he said to let them cops have the three_hundred . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Blockade runners can be stopped - by gunfire , if necessary - searched and held , at_least temporarily . |
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[ noun ] (baseball,sport,games) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
Synonyms Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Then Robinson slammed a long double to left center to score both runners . Related terms |
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[ noun ] someone who travels on foot by running
Used in print (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)Alexander_the_Great , who used runners as message carriers , did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at_once . |
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[ noun ] a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
Examples "he sent a runner over with the contract" Used in print (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)Years ago this was true , but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ) , these restrictions have disappeared and now again too_much is heard . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13169
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[ noun ] a long narrow carpet
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[ noun ] (sport) a trained athlete who competes in foot races
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[ noun ] (zoology) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
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